Feb. 4
1969
Oil drilling stopped
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI)-Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel said yesterday oil companies had complied with his request that they voluntarily stop drilling in the Santa Barbara channel because of a huge oil slick menacing some of Southern California's finest beaches.
Hickel asked for the volunteer suspension of drilling until the pollution crisis had been studied following his two-hour aerial survey Monday of the massive slick of reddish-brown crude oil that had spread across the blue waters of the Pacific along the coast.
In announcing that the six oil firms drilling in the area had agreed to his request, Hickel said: "This procedure will afford a breathing spell until it can be determined whether corrective measures are necessary."
After surveying the slick from
Plugged Nickel buys Chicago jazz
CHICAGO (UPI) — Chicago and jazz may once have been synonymous. But jazz is hardly worth a plugged nickel in the Windy City these days.
In fact, that's just what it's worth—the Plugged Nickel, one of the few jazz meccas surviving in the once toddlin' town.
The "Plugged Nickel," formerly an old western-style saloon, stands on the "Gaslight Gulch" night club strip in the Near North Side's Old Town area.
The Nickel backed into jazz by accident. When patrons for its then 50-cent steins of beer and hamburgers were conspicuous by their absence from the Nickel's 19th century "bucket of blood" atmosphere, the owner employed a Dixie-land jazz band to work weekends.
the air, Hickel said, "the pollution is much more severe than I had anticipated."
But Hickel, confronted with his first major problem since taking office with the Nixon administration, did not order a halt to drilling in the channel although he has the power to do so.
The secretary said he thought the problem could be handled on a voluntary basis between government and industry.
Hickel got a close-up view of the slick, fed by oil bubbling up from underground fissures surrounding an offshore drilling operation, from a Coast Guard amphibious plane.
After returning to the airport from the survey, Hickel said the pollution disaster in the channel was as much the fault of the government as anyone."
He said the oil industry had met government regulations but that these rules were not rigid enough to protect the channel against pollution.
He was obviously embarrassed to have to associate with other, somewhat seedy, individuals who were also a part of the lineup.
HOUSTON (UPI)—A small, well-dressed but nervous man was led into the line up room at police headquarters vesterday.
Man in police line up hit mother-in-law
The man fidgeted under the bright lights.
"What were you arrested for?" came the voice of the interrogator.
The man lowered his head and said:
"I hit my mother-in-law." There was instant response.
"Release that man," yelled someone in the darkened audience. "Give him a medal," cried someone else.
The officers and victims in the audience gave the suspect a standing ovation.
Curator dissents against UMKC dissent symposium
Student leaders at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC), were optimistic yesterday that a proposed symposium on dissent scheduled to begin Feb. 13 would begin as planned despite "conservative opposition."
Allan Katz, UMKC Student Body President said the opposition started when conservative elements in the community got together and wrote letters to the governor and state legislators opposing the symposium. Following this the Missouri Board of Curators met Jan. 24 and decided that, while they did not support the symposium, they believed the students should have what they want.
At 5 p.m. yesterday, Katz heard that William H. Billings, one of the curators from Kennet, Mo. was attempting
"So far," Katz said, "Billings
'Help me!
A passing truckdriver finally
Youth dies while onlookers lock doors
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Michael Altschul ran from car to car in the crowded intersection, but no one would let him in. Then, as motorists sat watching in their locked cars, he turned to his pursuer and extended his arms.
The man shot him in the chest.
Police said Altschul, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, lay dying in the intersection as the onlookers who had locked their doors against him drove off Sunday night
Late yesterday, police said they still did not know why Altschul was killed.
stopped and took him to a hospital but he was dead on arrival.
Altschul lived in a quiet middle-class neighborhood with his parents and worked at a drug center in the Country Club Plaza to help put himself through school.
He drove to the midtown intersection Sunday night with a group of other youths, including his younger brother, and told them as they let him out that he was going to hitchhike home.
The next time anyone saw him was when the gunman and another man pursued him across the intersection. He tried to get at least two motorists to open their cars and let him in but the witnesses said they had seen the "fight brewing" and were afraid to unlock the doors.
has been unable to get the curators to do anything.
Witnesses provided police with descriptions of the two men who stalked Altschul to his death and of a third man who stood beside the killers' parked car. They did not get a good look at the driver, they said. The two men got in the car and drove off after the shooting, witnesses said.
"If all legal channels are exhausted and it appears that we will not have a program, they (the UMKC Board of Curators) will have a riot on their hands," one student said.
"The symposium was paid for by the students and voted for by student representatives," Katz said. "The program was set three months ago and legal contracts were signed by the participants and university officials at Columbia, Mo.," Katz continued.
Speakers scheduled to appear during the three day symposium include keynote speaker Rep. Allard K. Lowenstein, (D-N.Y.) who started the anti-Johnson campaign last year; Dr. Benjamin Spock, who is appealing conviction on charges of conspiring to counsel draft-evasion; Staughton Lynd, former professor of history at Yale, and Pete Seeger, a folk singer.
Ron Hall, administrative assistant to Katz, said the third day of the symposium will be "Black Saturday." Appearing that day will be Harry Edwards; who organized the black boycott of the Olympic Games; Charles Evers, civil rights leader, and Paul Jacobs, consulting editor of Ramparts Magazine.
Hall said the problem had been discussed with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). A spokesman for the ACLU said the speakers were not violating any law and there was no legal basis for stopping the symposium. Any attempt to stop the symposium, he stated, would constitute a violation of the right of free speech.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Thomas Jefferson once described the original White House as "a great stone house big enough for two emperors, one Pope and grand lama in the bargain."
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